The Case of Bare Plurals and Plural Definites. - Institut für Linguistik ...
The Case of Bare Plurals and Plural Definites. - Institut für Linguistik ...
The Case of Bare Plurals and Plural Definites. - Institut für Linguistik ...
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<strong>Plural</strong> <strong>Definites</strong>: Distribution over Sum<br />
Eventuality Parts<br />
(3) <strong>The</strong> biologists that lectured on kangaroos at the<br />
conference last summer were usually open-minded.<br />
Most e [e ∈ Atom(σ{e’: arg* (e’, the_biologists e’’<br />
)})]<br />
[e ∈ Atom(σ{e’: open_minded(e’)})]<br />
• Where the_biologists e’’<br />
is the maximal sum individual<br />
<strong>of</strong> the biologists who participated in the relative clause<br />
event e’’ (lecturing) at the conference last summer.<br />
(see appendix for details)<br />
Indefinites <strong>and</strong> Weak Quantifiers, Brussels 2005
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